How to Remove Dead Code from a Monolith Safely Using Usage Telemetry
Learn a staged, telemetry-driven process to find and remove dead code in a large monolith: detect unused endpoints, add tombstones, deprecate, flag, then delete.
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refactoring
How to Extract a Service from a Monolith: Picking the First Seam
Learn how to extract your first service from a monolith by choosing a clean seam, untangling data, cutting over safely, and budgeting for platform work.
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Refactor a Monolith with Feature Toggles, Not Long-Lived Branches
Why long-lived branches fail large monolith refactors, and how branch by abstraction plus short-lived feature toggles enable safe incremental refactoring.
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Modular Monolith Testing: Make the Module Your Main Test Unit
Shape a modular monolith test suite around module tests with real infrastructure, faked neighbours, contract tests, boundary rules and thin end-to-end checks.
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Technical Debt Cost: How to Budget and Prioritise Paydown
Learn to estimate technical debt cost as recurring interest in engineer-hours, rank paydown by payback, and run a protected refactoring budget.
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Monorepo Cost Benefit: Tooling Cost, CI Savings and Refactoring Ease
Learn where a monorepo moves engineering cost, when CI savings and refactoring ease outweigh tooling cost, and how to model the trade-off with your own numbers.
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How to Reduce Duplicated Code Across Services Without Tight Coupling
Learn when to reduce duplicated code across services, how each reuse mechanism couples teams, and how to design, own and migrate shared libraries safely.
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